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Post by 3speed on May 23, 2015 18:06:25 GMT -5
Here in the States, Monday, May 25th will be Memorial Day. I don't want to get too heavy with this post, but I feel it needs to be said. Memorial Day is the first big tourist travel holiday of the year and has morphed into the unofficial official start of Summer. Regardless of how you feel about them, with one active war and another just wrapped up, very few people will give thought to the intent of this holiday. It has almost become just another day off of work to barbecue and drink. Although it's exact origin is debated, Memorial Day began as Decoration Day shortly after the end of the American Civil War as a day to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. Honoring the fallen was of paramount importance to the general population at the time owing to the sheer overpowering numbers killed during the Civil War - more than 600,000 killed affecting nearly every family in the country. Memorial Day is not a day to honor veterans. It is much more important than that - our day is in November. It is a day officially set aside to honor those who died in service to their country - our country. It is a day to remember and to commemorate those who paid the ultimate price so that the rest of us could enjoy the freedoms and rights that we take for granted on a daily basis. Please take a moment on Monday to do so. THE PRICE OF FREEDOM IS PAID IN BLOOD.
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Post by George on May 27, 2015 22:47:29 GMT -5
Had a partner, Nate Rock, who left overseas during the early waves of the Iraq invasion, he was a marine sniper who did not make it back. ourfallensoldier.com/RockNathanielS_MemorialPage.htmlA second partner, also a marine and then army, was just activated and is heading to the Balkans. Usually I'm pretty good with words, but all I can really say is the goodbye my new partner received had a far greater sense of humbled sincerity and appreciation with reflection of what happened to Rock. I was not in the service, but there is a uniformed brotherhood among cops that I know exists among troops, and that bond means more and more the more you lose, or gain, as experience builds.
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Post by 3speed on May 29, 2015 17:04:22 GMT -5
that bond means more and more the more you lose, or gain, as experience builds. Yes, sir. It sure does.
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